'Indigenous people have been living the same struggle. Indigenous people have felt, too, that their lives haven't really mattered.'
Former MKO grand chief and Indigenous advocate Sheila North says the experiences aren’t the exact same, but said long-running issues of racism do resonate with the Indigenous community.
“I would never want to take away what’s happened there and minimize it in anyway,” North said of the situation inthe United States. “But we, as Indigenous people, have faced racism in our own country here for generations, even since 150 years ago.”North says the time to take action is now.“While people are suffering and it’s tragic to see people dying and being attacked, we do have an opportunity here to make big, bold changes at government level to reach Indigenous people and reach those people that are the most vulnerable,” North said.
Corey Shefman, an Indigenous rights lawyer, says it shouldn’t mass protests in the United States to get the conversation of racism going in Canada.“We don’t need to wait for these mass protests in the United States to realize and do something about the serious problem we have here in Canada.”
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